Photobioreactor design and fluid dynamics

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-355

  Merchuk, J C ^a,b   Garcia Camacho, F ^a   Molina Grima, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mathematical modelling; Photobioreactors; Photoinhibition; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; KINETIC THEORY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; BIO REACTOR; KINETIC MODELLING; PHOTO-BIOREACTORS; PHOTOBIOREACTOR;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 46949106130     PISSN: 03529568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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